Wiki news digest 2011-02

The Nukapedia News Digest is our weekly update on Wiki News, Fallout News, and moreIf you think that something should be added to the next issue, please either drop it in the comments, contact us through the methods above, or leave a note on Agent c's talk page.

We haven't had a wiki news digest for quite a while, so here's another summary of what's going on at The Vault and Wikia in general.

The Vault news

Gadgets

The first set of optional JavaScript gadgets has been created - a list with short descriptions can be found at Special:Gadgets or on the "Gadgets" tab of Special:Preferences, where they can be activated. Here are the links to the original scripts on dev.wikia (where you can also find descriptions and instructions on how to use the scripts on other Wikia-hosted wikis):

New polls

An upgraded version of polls has just been enabled. It's separate to the old <poll> extension (which will continue to exist for some time), and works a little differently, via a special Special:CreatePoll page. Polls themselves even have their own pages, and are included on pages like templates: {{Poll:Name}}. Since the feature is still being tested, please give us any feedback you might have!

News system changes

In order to make posting news slightly more comfortable and having the posted news look a bit better, we have made a few changes to the news system.

{{News}} now categorizes news items in the proper news categories. The month-specific category is added automatically based on what is entered for date and additional categories can simply be specified with the new category parameter. category supports the usual abbreviations for the game-specific news categories (FO1, FO3 etc) as well as "wiki" and "community" for news related to the wiki or the Fallout fan community. Up to 10 keywords and abbreviations can be used, separated by comma (",").

There is now a special template for quoting news items from other sites, {{Newsquote}}. Unlike {{Quotation}}, the text flows properly around any images used in the news post and it supports quoting multiple sections of the same source item.

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Be readable: If your message can't be understood, it will be considered spam. Leetspeek does constitute unreadability.